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Bush says high court nominee will represent "mainstream of American law"
Christopher Tate
July 16, 2005 03:01:00 pm

In his weekly radio address , President Bush Saturday described his model candidate to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as "a fair-minded individual who represents the mainstream of American law and American values" and...

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French interior minister promises deportation for radical Islamic clerics
Christopher Tate
July 16, 2005 02:58:00 pm

French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy stated Friday that France will continue to punish anyone preaching militant Islam in France with deportation. For over a year now, France has formally embraced a deportation policy for anyone using Islam...

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Swiss UN report calls on Israel to dismantle fence when suicide bombs subside
Christopher Tate
July 16, 2005 02:57:00 pm

A report submitted by Switzerland Friday to the UN General Assembly in its capacity as guardian of the Geneva Conventions called on Israel to promise disassembly of the West Bank Security Fence if...

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Members of Iraqi constitutional committee doubt completion by deadline
Christopher Tate
July 9, 2005 04:08:00 pm

Some of the 55 delegates to the Iraqi constitutional drafting committee are expressing pessimism about their ability to overcome ideological differences in time to have a working document ready for review by National Assembly on August 15,...

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Disney nephew drops lawsuit against company
Christopher Tate
July 9, 2005 03:12:00 pm

The Walt Disney Co. shareholder derivative lawsuit filed in May by nephew of founder Walt Disney and Disney shareholder Roy Disney was dropped Friday evening after the two sides came to agreement. Roy Disney and...

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French court frees former Guantanamo detainee
Christopher Tate
July 9, 2005 03:06:00 pm

Imad Achab Kanouni, a French citizen once held in the American detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was released from French custody Friday. Top French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere ordered Kanouni's release from French detention,...

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IBM intellectual property trial delayed
Christopher Tate
July 7, 2005 03:51:00 pm

An intellectual property infringement lawsuit by SCO Group against IBM will not go to trial until February 26, 2007, over two years later than originally scheduled. US District Judge Dale Kimball rescheduled the...

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Democrats continue calls for consultation on Supreme Court nominee
Christopher Tate
July 7, 2005 01:46:00 pm

Leading Senate Democrats said Thursday that although they appreciate the phone calls from the Bush administration following the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor , they want to know exactly who President Bush is considering as a replacement...

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NYT reporter Miller held in "New Generation" jail in Northern Virginia
Christopher Tate
July 7, 2005 11:48:00 am

New York Times reporter Judith Miller , who was ordered jailed for contempt after refusing to reveal a source in conjunction with a federal criminal investigation into an intelligence leak, is at the Alexandria Detention Facility...

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Lawyers in Abu Ghraib trial request new judge
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July 7, 2005 10:57:00 am

Lawyers for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England will request at a pretrial hearing Thursday that Judge Col. James Pohl be removed from the case. Pohl had presided over England's first trial, in which he...

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28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration of the United Nations, signed the previous day.

During the preceding December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations".

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union.

Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.

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